So over the weekend I had some success with getting an image and managing to focus the camera. For anyone who stumbles in this, I used the following settings in ekos:

Gain: 135
Offset: 1
Camera exposure: 6 seconds

I set the images to loop and the managed to see some orbs, from there allowed me to adjust the focus and finally I saw some stars.

I stopped using the stream option as I could never get it to work.

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